SCORE looks to help Peoria-area businesses score

SCORE used to stand for Service Corps of Retired Executives. But not anymore. Bill Axelrod, who heads the Peoria chapter, said that the organization calls on anyone with business experience to help companies get by.

SCORE’s Peoria chapter has 25 volunteers at present and could use more, said Axelrod, 68, a retired Navy veteran who moved to Peoria with his wife last year.

SCORE’s expertise can make a difference. “Ninety-one percent of small businesses that received help from SCORE made it through their first year. The national average is 50 percent, he said.

In 2010, SCORE volunteers mentored 187 individuals in the Peoria area while another 876 people took advantage of SCORE workshops (held once a month at the Heartland Partnership offices in Downtown Peoria).

For more information, check out the group’s website at www.scorepeoria.org or call 676-0755.

Author: Steve Tarter

Born in England, raised in Boston, I'm a Midwestern transplant who's called Peoria home for the past 40 years. Married with four grown children, I enjoy journalism, film noir and radio drama. As the song goes, I like coffee; I like tea. Former president of the Apollo Theater in Downtown Peoria, I'm looking for a new raison d'etre.
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